On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:03:40PM -0400, david ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm seriously considering the 70-300 DO lens. Has anyone had any > real world experience with it? The reviews tend to imply that it's > great or that it is awful and expensive. I'd say it's great but expensive. :-)
I have no complaints about image quality, with the caveat that lens hood is pretty much a must (and don't use any protective filters, it's allergic to them). Mechanically it's quite good also, with true ring USM giving full-time manual focus and fast AF, although zoom action could be smoother. And it is fantastically small. Whether it's worth the extra price over the 70-300/4-5.6 IS USM (non-DO), well, depends - I haven't actually tried the latter, but AFAIK it doesn't have FTM at any rate, and compared to the old 75-300IS the improvement was radical in every respect. -- Tapani Tarvainen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
